Stuff about new media art and the like
Experimental music instruments by Luigi Russolo.
Russolo, an Italian futurist painter and composer, made these wonderful noise-making instruments 1913. There were 27 different versions, each named, and each making some sort of noise or sound; like that of machines, but turned…
Live video by Ilona Huss Wallin (2002)
Wallin built a model of a home, in the scale of rats. For five weeks they were living in the model, constantly monitored by video cameras. The video was streamed in real time and…
kinetic sculpture by ART+COM (2008)
This kinetic scuplture consists of 714 balls (in, I believe, a 15 x 42 grid) that drop down on wires from the ceiling. During a 7-minute run they form various forms; at first just a random cloud,…
Light installation (?) by Anthony McCall (1973)
A 16mm projector is projecting a movie on the wall. At first, the movie seems to be just a white point on a black background. Very slowly, it starts expanding, first to an arc, and…
Responsive video installation by Alvaro Cassinelli and Masatoshi Ishakawa
Khronos Projector looks like a backprojected image on a wall. But the projection surface is very flexible, and you can push it in with your hands. When you do that, the parts of…
Responsive wearable by Hachiya Kazuhiko (1993)
Two people put on these machines that let you swap your visual and auditory input with each other, so that you “can only see through the other person’s eyes”.
Photo: Kurokawa Mikio
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Closed circuit TV installation with bronze statue, by Nam June Paik (1974)
A statue of the Buddha is watching its own image on TV. Need I say more?
Lightbox with Duratrans print by Jim Campbell
In his series of “illuminated averages”, artist Jim Campbell creates averages of video sequences. Of course (well, I assume)Â he makes these using some sort of software, not by hand, but they also refer…
Interactive media façade by Chaos Computer Club (2001-)
Project Blinkenlights was a public installations that turned the façade of a building into a low-resolution display, using lights inside the windows. Members of the general public could upload their own animations to the…
interactive game environment by Pierre Huyghe (1999)
Two people hold game controllers and play Pong using the lights in the ceiling as pixels.
Autonomous kinetic sculptures by Theo Jensen.
Theo Jensen is one of those characters that you just have to love. On his CV he lists how he started studying physics in 1968, and then “stops studying physics and becomes a painter” in…
Responsive wearable goggles by Alexei Shulgin and Aristarkh Chebyshev.
super-i presents itself as a pair of wearable goggles with a camera on front. There’s a little box containing some electronics that let you apply different filters to the image from the camera…
OpenFrameworks is a cross-platform, open-source C++ library for creative coding. It seems to be really catching on in the new media field, and a lot of artists and hackers are now using it. Watch the video I posted here, “Made…
The next OpenFrameworks Syjunta is scheduled for nov 26th 2008. This time the venue is Detroit on Roslagsgatan 21.
Stockholm has been blessed with its own openFrameworks Knitting Circle. If you’re wondering why I’m talking about a knitting circle at at new media blog, it’s because this is not really a knitting circle. The craft here is hacking, not knitting.…
 
The good people of DÃ¥nk! are organizing the first Dorkbot Gothenburg event. It starts in about 30 minutes, so chances are that if you’re reading about it here it’s too late. All I know is that Japanese artist Kanta Horio will be there.
If…
 
Autonomous installation by Tim Horntrich and Jens Wunderling.
The piece self.detach - decomposing identities continuously scans whatever is being posted to Flickr. Images that are understood as being self-portraits (pictures tagged as “me”, “moi”, etc) will be extracted. They are then shredded into…
Just so you know, there will be a new edition of Electrohype in Malmö, Sweden, this fall (2008). The call for entries is out on the electrohype website, electrohype.org
Interactive mixed reality game by Animaatiokone Industries.
Kick Ass Kung-Fu is a mixed reality fighting game. You perform your real martial-arts type moves in front of a camera. On screen you see both yourself and your virtual opponents. Fight!
I’m particularly impressed…
Autonomous installation by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen.
Listening Post is a piece that listens to a number of online chat forums in real time. It extracts lines (those that contain the words “I am…”) and then displays these at the small…
